We first showed you the S5 when we saw it at the Tour de France early in July and now we’ve had the chance to put some miles – or indeed kilometres – in on it, we also rode the R5 and got a look at the new R5VWD frame.The whole point of the S5 … Read more
A father from Burton-on-Trent has been fined £100 for carrying his two-year-old son on his bicycle, with the youngster sitting on a seat that had been bought from Halfords, reports The Daily Telegraph. Ghullam Murtza, aged 26, was issued with a fixed penalty notice for carrying more than one person on his bike after officers … Read more
Italian components company Campagnolo is locked into a ‘pre-Giro’ launch date for its long-awaited electronically-controlled and actuated Super Record groupset.A Campagnolo spokesman told road.cc yesterday how painstaking the route to market was for its electronic components. “When the boss has Campagnolo in his name you can be sure he’s worried that the new groupset will … Read more
Organisers of the third annual Cobble Wobble in Frome, Somerset, warned that the event would sell out in double-quick time when registration went live on its website last week, and so it proved – so now, they’ve made a very limited number of additional places available for the event on Sunday 25 September.Again, you’d better … Read more
Garmin’s booth was awash with punters at Eurobike, most of them drawn by the lure of the Vector power measuring pedal. Garmin haven’t been much involved with the actual power measurement side before, even though their ANT+ devices allow other systems to be hooked up, but their acquisition of Metrigear last year signalled their intentions … Read more
Bradley Wiggins was this evening unrepentant after taking the Vuelta leader’s jersey from team mate Chris Froome on Stage 11 of the Vuelta a Espana this afternoon and insists he is in a position from which he can win the race.The British champion, who had started the day third overall, attracted criticism from some fans … Read more
Bradley Wiggins has taken over the leader’s jersey at the Vuelta a Espana from Team Sky colleague Chris Froome, who drops to second after being unable to stay with an attack initiated by Garmin-Cervelo’s Dan Martin 3 kilometres from the end of today’s Stage 11 in Galicia. The man who separated the pair in the … Read more
You know when you get up at 4.30 in the morning and put cycling clothes straight on it’s going to be a big day. Day Three of the Haute Route has been oft mentioned as being The Big One, the longest stage of the week at 169kms, with three mountains in the way offering a … Read more
Cadel might have ended up in yellow, but many people’s hero of the Tour de France was Vacansoleil’s Jonny Hoogerland. Flung from his bike into a barbed wire fance by an errant TV car, Jonny needed 33 stitches in cuts to his legs and buttocks when he finished the Issoire to Saint Flour stage. Jonny’s … Read more
MCipollini, the bike brand of now retired sprint ace Mario Cipollini, has launched a new road bike called the Lògos that is cheaper than the existing RB1000 and RB800. Admittedly, that’s not saying much because those two road bikes, available in various builds, are super-expensive.The Lògos is a monocoque made from T700 carbon whereas the … Read more
